1.   Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.

2.   He acquired a stake in a small lighting business which bought candles from the Wandsworth factory.

3.   Millions of voters have acquired a stake in the wider ownership of shares and homes and a voice in union affairs.

4.   At his press conference Mitterrand announced that private investors would be allowed to acquire minority stakes in state industries to finance industrial investment and employment programmes.

5.   This share confers rights restricting other shareholders or potential shareholders from acquiring controlling stakes in the company for a period of years or indefinitely.

6.   AMR and BA said they may acquire equity stakes in Iberia.

7.   BBV acquired the stake from the Monsegur family, which controls Banco Frances.

8.   A buyer would be better able to value BioWhittaker if it knew it could acquire that stake, Boehringer Ingelheim said.

9.   A Microsoft spokeswoman also denied that the company is in talks to acquire a stake in NBC.

10.   According to US West, Toshiba and Itochu would then have an option to acquire equity stakes in that partnership.